Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

Quite a few things have been happening over the last couple of weeks. I’ve launched a website for one of the UK’s (and possibly the world’s) finest landscape photographers, been on a course in Wales with this person and another of the World’s finest landscape photographers, created a couple of product customisations (magnetic lee filter and waterproof quick disc that works in the dark) and bought some new equipment and books.

Trying to write up the whole lot in one block is a little daunting so I’m going to spread them out over the next week or so and accompany them with some pictures taken whilst in Wales.

Firstly there is the website I’ve built for David Ward, a photographer I particularly admire and one whose best work had no representation in the public domain. A little back story first though. I went on a photographic holiday in the Hebrides with a company called Light and Land last year (pictures posted on some of the first posts in this blog). The leader of the course was David Ward who had brought some work to show people and who also made a big impression on my understanding of why I take pictures. I was very surprised to hear that David didn’t have a website and mentioned to him that I’d be happy to build one for him if he was interested.

Over the next few months, as well as immersing myself in large format photograph (damn you David) I also designed a look and feel for the website and planned out content and how it would work. The site was launched two weeks ago and most of the bugs seem to be ironed out now. Have a look at http://www.into-the-light.com and let me know what you think. Your feedback will go directly into the website if it’s good!

I personally am very happy with the results and the decisions made to get to where we are.

Some of those decisions are fundamental to how we photographers portray ourselves on the web. The biggest decision is the size of images which I will be discussing in my next blog post.